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Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Minerals of France Minerals of France include Bournonite a sulfosalt mineral species, trithioantimoniate of lead and copper. It was named to honor French mineralogist and crystallographer Jacques Louis de Bournon. Bournonite is found in hydrothermal veins of medium temperatures in localities in England, Ireland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Romania,…

Rosasite and Mimetite Rosasite is a carbonate mineral with minor potential for use as a zinc and copper ore. Chemically, it is a copper zinc carbonate hydroxide with a copper to zinc ratio of 3:2, occurring in the secondary oxidation zone of copper- zinc deposits. It was originally discovered in 1908 in the Rosas mine…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Meteorites Rocks From Outer Space! Meteorites have proven difficult to classify, but the three broadest groupings are stony, stony iron, and iron. The most common meteorites are chondrites, which are stony meteorites. Radiometric dating of chondrites has placed them at the age of 4.55 billion years, which is the…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Marcasite Cocks Comb Marcasite Cocks Comb. Here’s a really attractive and rare classic old stock specimen of Cock’s Comb Marcasite Crystals from the Joplin Missouri Tri-State area. This is an unusual specimen, featuring sharp, truly breathtaking displays of Marcasite Crystals from the now closed sections of the Tri-State District.…

Home Minerals List Our Policies Shipping Dendritic Moss Opal Lapis Lazuli / Lazurite Lapis Lazuli usually occurs in crystalline marble as a result of contact metamorphism. The finest lapis comes from the Badakhshan area in northern Afghanistan. This source may be the world’s oldest, continually worked, mines for lapis Lazuli. The same mines operating today…

Home Minerals List Our Policies Shipping Dendritic Moss Opal Herkimer Diamonds Herkimer Diamonds are totally natural formations of sparkling double-terminated, exceptionally hard, quartz crystals which are found in Herkimer County, New York. These gemstones formed about five hundred million years ago. Herkimer crystals are the magnificent artistic results of Mother Nature’s work. They are found…

Home Minerals List Our Policies Shipping Dendritic Moss Opal Fulgurites…Sand Fused by Lightning Fulgurite…When I was in school we were taught that there were 3 states of matter…solids, liquids and gasses. It seems the world has gotten smarter since then. There are many states of matter but there are 4 states of matter that are…

Home Minerals List Our Policies Shipping Dendritic Moss Opal Fluorite Octahedron Crystals Fluorite from the classic locale Riemvasmaak in the Kakamas district in Northern Cape Province, South Africa has become one of the most sought after Fluorites in the world. It is famous for its fluorescent, transparent octahedral crystals of green fluorite collected in the…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Elmwood Mine Specimens The Famous Elmwood Mine is located in Carthage, Central Mining District in Smith County, Tennessee. Nearby towns are Lebanon, Murfreesboro and Hendersonville, Tennessee. The Elmwood Mine is a zinc mine. The Zinc minerals were first discovered in 1967. The first production started in 1975. At that…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Dragon Eggs Extra! Extra! Dragon Eggs Nest Found in Smoky Mountains! Story of the Dragon Eggs These were originally found by farmers in China long ago. They did not know what they were or the value of what they had found. Some thought they were giant bird eggs…”Too hard…